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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wish, Age, Youth

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Men, Follow Through

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination, Als, Taste

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aristocracy, Nobility, Piety
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perseverance, Silent, Grows

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Two, People

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teacher, Silence, Lessons

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning, Spring, Moving
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evil, Elements, Spirit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Impossible, Please
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.43, Princeton University Press

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Advice, Knows
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.94, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspirational, Life
"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas, Literature, Failing

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

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Life, Math, Looks

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adventure, Seize The Day, Plunge

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Limits, Oneself
"Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Religion, Looks, Lessons

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope, Despair, All Things
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memories, Heart, Men
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.59, Princeton University Press

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sympathy, Blame, Praise
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kings, Home, Men
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Mean, Nurse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Light, Sight

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Identity, Done

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